336 Quotes by Heraclitus

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

A man’s character is his fate.

What was scattered, gathers. What was gathered, blows away.

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.

Where there is no strife there is decay: ‘The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.’

Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one.

You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.